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Contest wtinuedfromPfl lley also areoffe .ms testing. Marla McClure, azos County director^ pes the contest rareness ofHIVandMDjj mmunity. “Everyone knowsakiii d HIV, but no one is I ? said. “Peoplehavegci icent with AIDS and! McClure said this com] n part because the sufi ?d to be seen in patiec ihle because of mci Fite Battalion Sports Page 7 • Tuesday, October 26, 1999 Iquestrian Team ikes top spot \t first home show STAFF AND WIRE REPORTS Applications for the it ion poster contest e at 016 Beutel ant matted by Nov. 19. Tuesday iThe Texas A&M Equestrian Team finished (first home show of the year with a first- team finish and three more first-place icements becausem ribbons. nk AIDS will neverafisSrhe Aggies beat Oklahoma State Universi- for the final team championship of the ekend, 25-18. OSU won the first show of M weekend, 24-21, while the Aggies re- batinded in the second with a 25-16 defeat of the Cowgirls. IWest Texas A&M finished third with six nts, while Sul Ross State finished fourth h three points. [Even with the pressure of hosting a show tich as this, our team rose to the occasion,” M equestrian coach Tana Buckner said, is was a chance for us to get our feet wet Id I thought we performed really well.” Individually for the Aggies, sophomore incy Cahill won her third open reining ti nt three tries and followed that up with a rd place finish in the open Western horse- Jinship class to claim her third consecutive -point rider award. Cahill scored a combined 32 points over course of three shows, including 11 in the al. “This is my first year to ride by IHSA (In- 'collegiate Horse Shows Association) rules jd I didn’t really know what to expect com- E in,” Cahill said. “I’m used to riding my frn horse in the AQHA (American Quarter- to si-national Student . Mini-Olympics wi ious campus sports fei ?ck out the MinWIympi (e for times and tat? 'nts: acs.tamu.edu/-tW for more information.:! uya at 847-5188. rcutive Council of Heal! itions: The Texas Cote pathic Medicine Schoo t Director will be avail* I visit with students at i C 206. ME SEE US OR YOUR UNO NEEDS! rse Association) and this is the first time liiatl’ve had to draw horses at random.” Senior Jamie Wells took her third consec utive reserve point rider award with a first- place finish in the open western horseman- lip class and a sixth-place finish in the open |ning class for a total of eight points. Wells scored a combined 25 points on the vfeekend. Senior Nicole Plunk captyred her IU Cycling Ter i con d consecutive Intermediate 1 champi- The Aggies will be back in action on Oct. -31 with two English and two Western ows at OSU in Stillwater, Okla. BY BLAINE DIONNE The Battalion F riendships are made in a variety of ways: through circumstance, through ad versity and over time. The friendship between fifth-year se nior cross country runners Stephen Erath and Scott Lenge- feld was forged from all three. They met for the first time as freshmen on the Texas A&M Cross Country Team, they fought through injuries togeth er and over the past four years, they have competed side-by- side through eight seasons of cross country and track. Both were accomplished runners coming out of high school, but that was their only similarity before their careers at A&M. Lengefeld is from Texas, Erath from Louisiana. Lenge feld was the recipient of the largest athletic scholarship ever given by A&M to a cross country runner, while Erath was a walk-on after being awarded an academic scholar ship. Lengefeld enjoyed a suc cessful freshman campaign, but Erath was hobbled the en tire season by an early-season injury. Lengefeld said although they began their careers differ ently, they are going to finish them identically. “We each started out differ ently,” he said. “But we’re both going to end up in the same spot, because we’re right together now, in our workouts and everything.” They did not get to the same spot by accident, either. Last season, the cross coun- Cross Country seniors Stephen Erath and Scott Lengefeld enjoy breakthrough year I 1* : -** 8 T 1 1 MM . IlSlili! JP BEATO/THe Battalion Seniors Stephen Erath (left) and Scott Lengefeld are attempting to the lead the Aggies to their first-ever NCAA Championships. The Aggies will host the Big 12 Championships Saturday at the Texas A&M Golf try team faced a transition year, with a new head coach and a squad dominated by freshmen. Erath and Lengefeld both said they knew there would not be much success coming the Aggies’ way with so much inexperience. So in order to avoid wasting their senior year competing in a situation they knew would be unrewarding, they both red- shirted. Erath and Lengefeld did, however, continue to practice with the team, so they were able to acclimate themselves to new coach Dave Hartman and develop their running talents further, hoping it would pay off this year when they had a deeper, more experienced team behind them. Their decision is certainly paying off now. Under the sec ond-year tutelage of head coach Dave Hartman, the Aggie Harriers are positioning them selves to qualify for the NCAA Championships for the first time ever, the reason Lengefeld and Erath came to A&M. Lengefeld said he credits the turnaround to Hartman’s train ing regimen. “It’s been 180 degrees dif ferent,” he said. “Simply be cause the attitude on the team is a lot different, and that comes straight from the coach.” Erath said he couldn’t agree more. “Coach Hartman was a real ly good long-distance runner,” Erath said. “So he can give us advice on a race and it makes perfect sense because he’s been there before.” Hartman seems to be giv ing them good advice this sea son, because in all but one of their competitions thus far, the pair have been the Aggies’ top two finishers, representing the bulk of the team’s point scoring. As far as Erath and Lenge feld are concerned, though, this team’s success has only just begun. Lengefeld said he is sure that the Aggies are on the verge of a major break through. “It’s going to happen; it has to happen,” he said. “You can’t work out as good as we’ve been working out in practice and it not carry over into a meet.” Although Lengefeld is the only one so far to have his practice carry over into a meet, he is quick to acknowl edge the fact that he is not the best runner on his team at practice. “I finished 45 seconds ahead of our second man last week at pre-nats (the Pre-NCAA Meet),” Lengefeld said. “But I’m finish ing second on the team during practice, so I think that we have a really good chance at doing real well at conference and es pecially at districts, which is two weeks later. ” The districts Lengefeld is referring to is the regional NCAA meet that will be held in see Run on Page 8. » Ave. tion y.com 693-i Is for Private Parti the 16 th IINK SPECIALS mal in Formation -7735 eet, Downtown Bryan Employer Information Session: 402 Rudder • October 28,1999 • 7:00 - 8:15 pm tal Centei >.D.S. .D.S. 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